Loew's Capitol Theatre

Ron3853 on September 3, 2004 at 10:16 pm

Part of the history of a great theater is the films that played there. Listed below are the films and opening dates which played the Capitol Theater in DC from 11/20/57 until its closing in August 1963. Research is from microfilms of The Washington Post and Variety. The dates are the Wednesday of the week in which the film first opened as in those days, movies usually premiered on a Wednesday instead of Fridays as they do now.

11/20/57 Les Girls
12/18/57 Don’t Go Near the Water
01/22/58 Legend of the Lost
02/05/58 The Seven Hills of Rome
02/19/58 The Gift of Love
02/26/58 The Lady Takes a Flyer
03/05/58 Underwater Warrior
03/12/58 Saddle the Wind
03/26/58 Merry Andrew
04/16/58 Paris Holiday
04/30/58 The Long Hot Summer
05/21/58 The Sheepman
05/28/58 This Happy Feeling
06/04/58 High School Confidential
06/18/58 Thunder Road
06/25/58 The Bravados
07/09/58 King Creole
07/23/58 The Badlanders
08/06/58 Twilight of the Gods
08/20/58 The Hunters
09/03/58 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
10/22/58 Torpedo Run
11/05/58 Party Girl
11/19/58 Tunnel of Love
12/17/58 tom thumb
12/31/58 Some Came Running
02/11/59 These Thousand Hills
02/18/59 The Journey
03/04/59 The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
03/11/59 The Night of the Quarter Moon
03/18/59 Some Like it Hot
06/10/59 Warlock
06/17/59 The Mysterians
06/24/59 Ask Any Girl
07/08/59 Say One For Me
07/29/59 Last Train from Gun Hill
08/19/59 Holiday for Lovers
09/02/59 Blue Denim
09/16/59 The Blue Angel
09/23/59 A Private’s Affair
10/07/59 The Tingler
10/21/59 Tamango
10/28/59 Five Gates to Hell
11/04/59 The Best of Everything
11/25/59 Beloved Infidel
12/09/59 Duel in the Sun
12/16/59 Journey to the Center of the Earth
12/30/59 Never So Few
01/20/60 The Story on Page One
02/03/60 Pretty Boy Floyd
02/10/60 Toby Tyler
02/24/60 The Last Voyage
03/09/60 The Gazebo
03/23/60 Heller in Pink Tights
04/06/60 Anatomy of a Murder/Room at the Top
04/13/60 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
05/25/60 Giant of Marathon
06/01/60 Five Branded Women
06/08/60 Crack in the Mirror
06/15/60 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
06/29/60 Bells are Ringing
07/27/60 The Bellboy
08/17/60 Murder, Inc.
09/24/60 Let’s Make Love
09/21/60 High Time
10/12/60 (STAGE SHOW)
10/19/60 Ruby
10/26/60 September Storm
11/09/60 Where the Hot Wind Blows
11/16/60 North to Alaska
11/30/60 Esther and the King
12/14/60 The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
12/28/60 Where the Boys Are
01/25/61 Village of the Damned
02/15/61 Circle of Deception
02/22/61 Gorgo
03/01/61 Cry for Happy
03/15/61 The Crowning Experiment
03/22/61 The Millionairess
03/29/61 Gone With the Wind
05/10/61 Atlantis, the Lost Continent
05/24/61 The Big Show
05/31/61 Two Loves
06/07/61 Gidget Goes Hawaiian
06/14/61 Wild in the Country
06/21/61 Snow White and the Three Stooges
07/05/61 Homicidal
07/12/61 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
07/26/61 Francis of Assisi
08/09/61 The Honeymoon Machine
08/23/61 The Pit and the Pendulum
08/30/61 Ada
09/13/61 A Thunder of Drums
09/27/61 Scream of Fear
10/04/61 Bridge to the Sun
10/18/61 Imitation of Life/Operation Petticoat
10/25/61 Twenty Plus Two
11/08/61 Mr. Sardonicus
11/15/61 Bachelor in Paradise
12/13/61 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/Gigi
12/20/61 Flower Drum Song
01/24/62 Sail a Crooked Ship
02/07/62 The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
03/07/62 Colossus of Rhodes
03/14/62 Battleground/Go for Broke
03/21/62 Sweet Bird of Youth
04/18/62 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
05/09/62 Ride the High Country
05/16/62 All Fall Down
05/23/62 The Last of the Vikings
05/30/62 The Cabinet of Caligari
06/06/62 It Happened in Athens
06/13/62 The Magic Sword/The Mighty Ursus
06/20/62 Reprieve
06/27/62 Hatari
07/25/62 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
08/08/62 The Notorious Landlady
08/29/62 Tarzan Goes to India
09/05/62 The 300 Spartans
09/19/62 Father of the Bride/Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
09/26/62 The Tartars
10/03/62 No Man is an Island
10/17/62 Almost Angels/Lady and the Tramp
10/31/62 Escape from East Berlin
11/07/62 Fancy Pants/The Seven Little Foys
11/14/62 (STAGE SHOW)
11/21/62 Period of Adjustment
12/12/62 King of Kings
12/19/62 It’s Only Money
12/26/62 The Lion
01/16/63 The Hook
01/30/63 Sodom and Gomorrah
02/13/63 Samson and the Seven Miracles
02/20/63 Follow the Boys
03/06/63 Show Boat/The Great Caruso
03/13/63 Papa’s Delicate Condition
03/20/63 The Swordsmen of Siena/Cairo
03/27/63 War and Peace
04/03/63 Madame
04/10/63 My Six Loves
04/24/63 Nine Hours to Rama
06/01/63 Ben-Hur
05/08/63 Corridors of Blood/Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
05/15/63 Cattle King
05/22/63 In the Cool of the Day
05/29/63 Hud
06/19/63 The Nutty Professor
07/03/63 Jason and the Argonauts
07/17/63 A Gathering of Eagles
07/31/63 Flipper
08/14/63 Captain Sindbad
08/25/63 A Ticklish Affair

“A Ticklish Affair” was the last film to play a first-run engagement at the Capitol. The very same week Loew’s opened a brand-new theater, the Embassy as its replacement. The Embassy was located at 1907 Florida Avenue. The Capitol was dmeolished in 1964.